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The Dr. Wayne Gulliver Project
Dr. Wayne Gulliver's influence extended beyond the lab, the academy, the clinic, and the lecture hall. He was a beloved and respected figure within the pharmaceutical and biotech communities. For Dr. Gulliver, interactions with drug reps and medical liason managers were never exclusively transactional. He took an interest in everyone who crossed his path, and developed strong friendships with pharma personnel, valuing them as colleagues. For that, he received a Canadian Healthcare Marketing Hall of Fame award in 2015, a rare honour for a physician. Wayne was moved by the recognition.
A documentary film directed by Nimisha Mukerji describes the patient journey of Andrew Gosse of Paradise, NL. Mr. Gosse had nearly full-body coverage with psoriasis, and received biologic treatment from Wayne Gulliver in 2009. He says, "Dr. Gulliver has given my wife back her husband. He’s given my children back their father.” An article in the Memorial University Gazette describes Dr. Gulliver's gratitude to Mr. Gosse and other families who have participated in drug trials. Read this extraordinary account here.
On winning the 'Nobel Prize of Dermatology'
On winning the 'Nobel Prize of Dermatology'
Dr. Wayne Gulliver was awarded the prestigious Dr. Albert Neisser Lecture Award at the 8th European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Conference in Wroclaw, Poland.
This honour is considered by many in the field to be the "Nobel Prize of Dermatology," and Dr. Gulliver is not only the 15th recipient since its inception in 2005 but also the very first Canadian to receive it. The award is named for the pioneering German dermatologist who discovered gonorrhea and became a professor extraordinarius at the age of 29.
Dr. Gulliver was recognized for his nearly 30 years of dedicated research and clinical work on hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a painful, long-term skin disease that affects 1-2% of the population and for which there is no known cure. "It felt great being associated with Professor Neisser," Gulliver said from his clinic. "To have my name associated with his and with 400 of my colleagues being there, it felt really, really nice."
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